After Effects Training

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After Effects Training It  has been a very busy year at Ycademy, with live daily training calls and topic related monthly Seminars. The December one day seminar on the 17th December covering After Effects is the last one for this year. Preparations have already begun for the Ycademy Media Design Seminar which focuses entirely...
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Maintain a Website

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Maintain a Website Following up on the previous post about Website Maintenance, in this post I will outline a few website  maintenance basics that  any owner of a WordPress website can follow. These are simple general maintenance tasks that are often overlooked and can cause errors and ultimately a failure of the website. Website Maintenance...
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Website Maintenance

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Website Maintenance Last week we were putting some finishing touches to a project called ‘Oliver’s Shop’, a new eshop selling Childrens Toys and Books. I say ‘finishing touches’ reservedly as no website is ever really finshed. In the case of Olivers online shop there are always products to be added, an update or upgrade...
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SlideDeck Pro Slides

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SlideDeck Pro Slides It’s been a busy week here working on various projects that I have on my desk. My last post referred to SlideDeck Pro that I installed on my author blog. I also mentioned that I may end up completely changing the look of the jQuery slider. Well this I have done,...
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Editing Photos Exercise

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Editing Photos Exercise Today turned out to be a stunning day weather wise - a warm breeze, lots of sunshine with long wispy clouds overhead; a day to just go outside and enjoy!  After the heavy downpour we had overnight the flowers in the garden took on a new lustre,  just shouting to be photographed....
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Editing Photos Exercise

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Editing Photos Exercise Ycademy Trainings offer training in various subjects. Digital Photography and the preparation of photos for the new ‘Photo Media Stock’ site was covered during the August seminar. Following  through on this them...
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Increase Your Business Exposure

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Increase Your Business Exposure As any business owner knows, business is about making those sales, whatever your product. Even if you are a handyman, tiler or carpenter, you need customers in order to sell your skill and be paid. You need business exposure to bring you those customers. Simple methods are great and work...
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Adding Frames in Photoshop

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The other day someone asked me how to add a frame to an image to give it the finishing touch. Adding Frames There are various ways to add a frame to any image. First you need to decide on the function of the graphic that is to be displayed. If the image is to...
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